NEVER Trust a Fed

[joe_peters]

http://www.slate.com/id/2245188/?GT1=38001

 

[ECKSJAY]

Copy and paste for those of us not interested in a click-thru?

 

[kujito]

Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.

That's the important bit.

BTW, it took me no less than 9 clicks so you could avoid 1.:wierd:

 

[XJ Eric]

Wow, that just smacks of conspiracy theory. There was a thing on bootlegging on History channel the guy they were inteviewing had a different take. I'm having a hard time finding the episode info on history.com
ANYWAY: he says, people were using anything they could get a hold of to make watered down whiskey have the punch of good whiskey. Things like TURPENTINE and FORMELDAHIDE.

 

[RTicUL8]

Won't be long before they'll be poisoning Snickers Bars - because the gov't has decided that they're bad for us.

 

[joe_peters]

I heard the government is going to poison trans fat!

I guess I won't put fat in my trans.

 

[kastein]

Wow, that just smacks of conspiracy theory. There was a thing on bootlegging on History channel the guy they were inteviewing had a different take. I'm having a hard time finding the episode info on history.com
ANYWAY: he says, people were using anything they could get a hold of to make watered down whiskey have the punch of good whiskey. Things like TURPENTINE and FORMELDAHIDE.

Ever hear of denatured alcohol?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatured_alcohol

 

[Boatwrench]

Same tactic used on marijuana fields. Sprayed with some sort of persticide that would make people ill. The Mexican Cartels would not have gained so much power if we had just legalized it and taxed the use of it.

 

[joe_peters]

Same tactic used on marijuana fields. Sprayed with some sort of persticide that would make people ill. The Mexican Cartels would not have gained so much power if we had just legalized it and taxed the use of it.

Or executed the growers/manufacturers, distributors, and dealers. :hang:

 

[RichP]

My grandparents were boot leggers, made bathtub gin and ran stills in south jersey at the time, some interesting stories, one of the big issues was lead poisoning leaching out from using car radiators and from using bad pipes.